While Israel has been issuing more and more evacuation orders against various locations in Lebanon, that hasn’t stopped them from attacking targets well outside of those locations. Today, central Beirut’s residential district is in their sights, even though no evacuation order was issued before the strikes began.
Other deadly strikes were reported in the Baalbek District of eastern Lebanon and in multiple areas of southern Lebanon. The Lebanese Health Ministry updated the death toll since the latest Israeli war began, with 570 Lebanese killed in the last week and a half.
The 570 included 439 men, 45 women, and 86 children. They also noted that at least 14 healthcare workers were among the slain in the attacks. The official number of “registered” displaced people in Lebanon is now 780,000.
Smoke rises after an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, Lebanon, March 10, 2026. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Israel is claiming that hundreds of the slain are Hezbollah, though the evidence for this is generally lacking, and the IDF is just making the same blanket claims of people they killed being Hezbollah they were before the war, just more of them because the escalation has left a large number of people slain.
There is no sign that the Lebanon war’s escalation is in any way slowing down, with Israeli officials suggesting yesterday that the war was likely to continue even beyond the much larger Iran war, which is happening alongside it.
Israel and Lebanon were technically in a state of ceasefire from November 2024 until this month. During that time, Israel carried out over 1,000 attacks on Lebanese territory, though the rate of attacks has grown substantially since the ceasefire ended.
